Bicycle Tours Raleigh NC

we're offering TWO awesome Week annually (Method) bicycle tours in 2016! In addition to our regularly-scheduled Method trip from Raleigh, new york, to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, this fall, our company is also supplying a tour from Canadian border in Calais to Portland, Maine, come july 1st. You can participate in both trips for a reduced rate!

Our Week a-year Tours explore a 300 to 350 mile element of the East Coast Greenway each year. They truly are led by ECGA staff and Trustees as they are sustained by a professional bike auto mechanic, a SAG car, and a truck to bring riders’ gear from resort to hotel. WAY Tours are our biggest fundraising events, as trip bikers raise resources or donate to support improvement the East Coast Greenway. Find out more and see photos from last year’s tour from Fredericksburg, VA, to Raleigh, NC, here.

Hopefully you are able to join us for starters or both of our 2016 trips! Extra information about the tours is below.

Resorts and Support: individuals are responsible for their particular resort & most dinner expenses. We secure a block of hotel rooms every night at a discounted price.

Take pleasure in the northern-most part of the East Coast Greenway, pedaling 337 scenic miles from the US/Canada border in Calais to Portland, Maine. Tour cyclists will explore the ECG’s longest greenway part, the gorgeous and durable Down East Sunrise Trail. We’ll go to the historic towns of Ellsworth, Bangor and Augusta before operating to the scenic “Forest City” of Portland, Maine.

Registration Fee: registration has become CLOSED
Tour circumstances: The path from Calais to Portland is quite hilly. The Down East Sunrise Trail, the longest and another of the most stunning of your trail areas, has actually an unpaved area perhaps not suitable for roadway bikes. There clearly was a roadway option for people who wish to ride roadway bikes, or if trail problems aren't ideal because weather. Road bicycles will likely be fine on all other parts.
Distances: approx. 337 miles total, average of 48 miles each day, the longest day is about 67 kilometers.

To be involved in this trip, cyclists must be able to average 10 kilometers per hour for approximately 67 miles per day in hilly conditions. Knowledge driving in a group, on roadways with car traffic is also required.

From state money of NC to tiny towns in between, bikers will encounter breathtaking ECG greenway portions, including the Neuse River Greenway in Raleigh, the Buffalo Creek Greenway in Smithfield, the Dunn-Erwin railway path, together with Cape concern River Trail in Fayetteville. Cyclists will go to historical downtown Wilmington and ride amazing portions of multi-use trail. A ferry throughout the Cape worry River will bring riders to Southport, NC, on the path to South Carolina and completed sections of greenway in Myrtle Beach.

Registration Fee: $160 per individual – this tour is currently complete. E mail us should you want to be on the waiting listing.
Shuttle Fee (optional): $60 per individual. Shuttle is following the tour from Myrtle seashore to Raleigh
Fundraising or Donation Amount: $750
Tour circumstances: Some mountains but mostly level. Route is predominately on roadways, but does feature some extremely scenic greenway sections.
Distances: approximately 315 kilometers complete, normal of 52 miles daily, the longest time is around 66 kilometers.

To take part in this trip, riders should be in a position to average 10 miles each hour for approximately 66 kilometers daily. Knowledge driving in an organization on roadways with vehicle traffic normally needed.